Investor bets millions more on RIM and BlackBerry 10 with purchase of an additional 12.2 million shares

"People do like to use the keyboard, and there is a big embedded base. This company could be worth a lot more."-Donald Yacktman, investor

RIM shares have almost doubled from a recent low near $6 to a current quote of over $11. One investor who has profited on paper from the recent rally in the stock is Donald Yacktman. The $19 billion he manages invests in undervalued companies and Yacktman recently doubled his firms investment in RIM by adding 12.2 million shares last quarter. Despite the recent rally, the stock is still 30% cheaper than it was trading at last year and that, combined with the upcoming BlackBerry 10 launch, interests investors like Yacktman, who also considers the 80 million subscribers that RIM has now, to be worth a lot of money.

Yacktman's fund now owns 4.5% of RIM, just under the 5% threshold that would force him to file with the SEC. Such a filing would no doubt set off rumors of a takeover and would send the stock higher. Yacktman's funds are RIM's fifth largest stockholder. While Yacktman won't reveal the exact date of his RIM purchases, he did buy it during the second quarter when the stock ranged between $6.31 and $8.29. That gives the investor a profit of between $30 million and $54 million at current levels. Focusing more on undervalued stocks than indexes, the $7.1 billion Yacktman Focused Fund has returned 12% over the last five years putting it in the top 1% of comparable funds.

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the investor is crap....he is tryin to be a playa but the noob is stuck with all this and he cant cash otu now so just simply buy more and hope people will be be dumb enough to follow....which will not happen as wee peeps are smarter than that!

God I love the blind hate. Rim is far from dead, people seem to not realize that rim is only falling behind in the u.s. Not the entire world. If Nokia has a shot with the lackluster wp. Then how is it that rim has no chance?

I'm going to love it when bb 10 destroys wp and all of you have to eat your uneducated words.

That investor will cry...
They should read this:
bgr.com/2012/11/27/blackberry-market-share-2012-an​alysis/

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We all know BlackBerry is collapsing in America, so the new Kantar Worldpanel data showing its market share slipping below 2% in the United States is no shocker. Research In Motion’s (RIMM) performance in its second major market — the United Kingdom — is also pretty much as expected. Its UK market share slipped from 19% to 8% between the three months ending in October 2011 and the autumn of 2012.

But what really pops out in the new Kantar data is BlackBerry’s performance in Brazil and the Mediterranean region, two crucially important markets for RIM. Relatively strong low-end BlackBerry sales in Latin America and the Mediterranean have kept RIM’s subscriber base north of 80 million globally. BlackBerry is relatively weak in India and almost non-player in China — unlike Nokia (NOK), HTC (2498) or LG (066570), RIM is unusually dependent on Brazil, Spain and France.

The Kantar autumn numbers in these markets are brutal. BlackBerry’s share tanked from 24% to 3% in Spain in just one year. RIM’s share is also down from 9% to 3% in Brazil and down from 16% to 7% in France.

Good-bye, BlackBerry: 3 steps to prepare for its demise
It's easy to switch to iOS or even Android, no matter what type of company you are

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3. Use the many tools available for securing iOS and Android
For several years, the mantra among many in IT is that only the BlackBerry could provide sufficient security and management capability needed for sensitive information, especially in heavily regulated information-centric industries such as law, financial services, health care, and aerospace/defense.

In fall 2008, the Secret Service told then President-elect Barack Obama that he could not use his BlackBerry for presidential work. After his inauguration, they relented for personal usage with the addition of specialty encryption. Today, he is frequently seen with his iPad.

In other words, the world has changed. "When the iPhone and Android came to market, they were not as robust with security, but since then Apple, Google, and third-party partners have filled many of the gaps around security and manageability that had made RIM a differentiator. Today, there are really no industries or job functions that would have no place to go other than BlackBerry," Borg says.

If the default security in iOS or Android isn't up to your needs, plenty of third-party mobile management tools are available to secure them at the level that companies require, Borg notes. "The leaders in this sector offer comprehensive security [capabilities] that in many cases meet or even exceed what RIM was doing with BES," Borg says.

The big area that such tools for iOS and Android beat RIM center around is the very area with the most potential for employees and employers alike: applications.
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infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/good-bye-blackbe​rry-3-steps-prepare-its-demise-196770?page=0,1&sou​rce=fssr

What's interesting about the comments here is that some people are jumping at the opportunity to say that investors are simply into gambling. These posters are simply eager to say something insignificant, if not negative. They are willfully overlooking what's at the base of the investors' actions. The investors, and especially the one mentioned in the heading, see that RIM is moving along in a solid attempt, rather than a dreamy one, to re-enter the market in a significant, relevant and meaningful way through an extremely much better thought-out product. The reviews have been good, apart from one early goers jumping the gun (and before anything was really seen or demonstrated) to say that Blackberry 10 was "dead on arrival." Clearly, if that were the case, we'd be seeing one negative review after another. That is contrary to what we've been seeing. It doesn't mean that Blackberry 10 is an "ipone killer." It does mean, though, that RIM's attempts are yielding something definitely worth considering. That, at least, is what the investors are responding to, rather than to any uncontrolable urge to "gamble."

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